SaaS Insights & Product Teardown The $1 Test: How I Used Claude to Validate a SaaS Idea Before Writing Any Code Here’s a question I ask myself before I open a code editor: if I put this idea in front of a total stranger right now, would they pay me one dollar for it? Not…
SaaS Insights & Product Teardown Live Vibe Coding with Claude: Building an Automated Pinterest Publishing System Most of what I share about Claude Code is after the fact — the finished feature, the clean commit, the “here’s what we shipped” recap. This time I wanted to do something different: pull back the curtain on an…
SaaS Insights & Product Teardown Claude AI for Founders, Part 2: The Four Limits That Will Bite You If You Don’t Know They’re There In Part 1, I made the case for Claude as a genius-level strategic thinking partner — a force multiplier for founders who don’t have a team of ten behind them. That…
There’s one product design move that separates forgettable SaaS tools from the ones that quietly become indispensable. It’s not a clever pricing page or a slick UI — it’s a fundamentally different philosophy about when you ask users to trust you. Get this right, and your activation rates climb. Get it wrong, and even a…
Why Most AI-Built Apps Are Doomed Before They Launch SaaS Insights & Product Teardown Why Most AI-Built Apps Are Doomed Before They Launch In Q1 of 2026, Apple’s App Store received close to 235,000 new app submissions — an 84% jump year-over-year. That’s not total apps on the platform. That’s new apps, in a single…
There’s a pattern I keep seeing across PLG products, and it’s not where most teams think the problem is. Step one works fine. User signs up. Email confirmed. Maybe they answered a quick onboarding survey — role, company size, what brings them here. The product team spent six weeks optimizing that signup flow. Conversion rate…
